Many schools offer critical thinking courses by teaching students how to read books and analyze the authors’ arguments. But they fail to connect the process and learning to the students’ personal lives. It is an exercise limited only to the classroom. Our culture, in a way, discourages or suppresses critical thinking, or creative thinking, or divergent thinking in areas such as religion, politics and relationships. Our educational system would rather indoctrinate than develop thinking critically. After school the question is: Are we in charge of our thinking or is our thinking in charge of us? We accept many beliefs directly affecting the quality of our lives not knowing whether or not they are of any help to us… … KAMALAYAN LEARNING is not exactly a subject or a course leading to graduation or getting a degree. It is a life-long learning process where there are no directions or grades given. How you grow or learn is up to you. I am not your teacher. I don’t teach. I share. Nobody can teach anyone anything. You are your own teacher. As a matter of fact, I want to separate the knowledge or information I share from myself. In other words, if there are controversial statements I share, question the statements not me. It is not because I don’t want to defend what I’ve written. How could I explain to you something about reincarnation? I can’t prove it. You have to learn it by yourself. What is true to you? Is truth important? Do you discover it through your own experience? Whose truth do you believe in? Other people’s truths, or your own truths based on your experience? -From the book Lessons I Never Learned in School by Tato Malay
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 01:36:01 +0000
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